The Cereal Killer

Next Wednesday, September 12th, I’ll be attending a workshop entitled “How to Write Humor.” This event is sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, more commonly known as OLLI. According to their course catalog, attendees are supposed to learn how to create characters with strong comedic perspectives, and how exaggeration and illogical comparisons are used to make things funny.

The course lasts for two hours and students will be provided worksheets to help them develop their own comic characters and tips on creating a story premise that keeps the audience in stitches. I hope to learn something useful from this class—after all, I am the instructor.

If you’re new to Friday Flash Fiction, the classroom sketch artist who draws caricatures of the speakers during their presentations, is Allie Hirshfeld Wisoff-Fields.If you’d like to participate in this exercise of madness, head over to her blog for step-by-step instructions. To view the ensemble of practicing fic-titioners in the writers in FFF Hollywood Squares Authors Block click here.

copyright – Gah Learner

The house on Snipe Lane made her fourth hit. She was starting to get quite a collection of Do-Not-Remove tags from the mattresses and furniture of the finest homes in Belton. Now, she had a container to display them in. The invisible box.

Her only complaint about today’s caper was the time and effort required to kill the Shredded Wheat. The box was almost full and it took a half-gallon of milk to drown the gurgling before it gave up the ghost and became listless beneath the stabbing of her spoon.

I’m sure there are millions boxes of cereal hiding in their cupboards right now praying that Shelley doesn’t find them. It must be horrible to be bludgeoned by a mime and then devoured. At least there won’t be any loud smacking.
Enjoyed the video. All that crew needed was an invisible box.

Let’s hope you don’t have more tags than fingers and toes.
Silly Biskits

Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
Another free humorous twosome from humorist Russell Gayer. If you want more of the same, make a sharp turn to the panel on your right and click on the covers of Russell’s books. You can also help him by again reblogging this post. Thanks.

I agree. It would make a good name for a band.
The workshop is in Fayetteville, Arkansas. From what I gather, many major universities have OLLI Chapters. They offer a lot of interesting classes along with hikes and other outdoor activities.

Shredded Wheat is definitely stubborn. Personally, I can’t choke the stuff down.
I hope to send the attendees home with loads of new ideas on how they can make their writing better–and funnier. We’ll see how it goes.

This is the blog of a woman who is seriously on the edge and I mean right ON the edge…no, not there… just a little bit further… further than that…no, further still…just a tiny bit more… just move slightly to the right a little…no, that’s too much…just move a tad to the left…that’s right, just there…now you’ve moved too far to the left… Damn, what part of the ‘on the edge’ do you not understand? Oh, and her matricidal boy genius, come devil spawn.